Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present mechanical nature of their value might be profitably altered by a reshaping of each course either to a rough reading outline of the nation's literature, or to a reading survey of the brighter contemporaries...
...reached a high in 1925 of $1.21 a pound and in that year averaged 73? U. S. rubber users, tiremakers, were in a public panic. They pressed a campaign of conservation. They began to "reclaim" used rubber. They started a world-wide search for plantations where the U. S. might produce its own supply. They commissioned Thomas Alva Edison to study how to extract rubber from such plants as milkweed. And, in 1926, tiremakers formed the Rubber Pool to buy a great supply at between 35 and 41? a pound...
With Steel confirming the "15x" theory, did investors hold General Motors cheap at 222, rush to brokers with orders to buy? Prudent investors consulted prudent stockmarketeers. They learned: 1) that the "15x" formula might justify itself in a strong bull market, but that it could not be maintained in a slump; 2) that many a sound, conservative stock, undisturbed by pools, sells at 10x or 12x; 3) that 5-year earnings are safer guides than 9 months or a year...
...Mayor of Chicago been in the McMillin Academic Theatre at Columbia University last week he might well have yelped and yarred in anti-British fury...
...curt injunction that Jonathan continue as invaluable village doctor. His constant helpmeet was Rachel, dark-eyed beauty, but he kept reminding himself that calm brunettes were not his type -too unlike Edie. These contemplations were rudely interrupted by Harold reported killed and Edie marrying disillusioned "brother Jonathan," that she might honorably bear Harold's child. Harold's unexpected reappearance so confuses the situation that nothing is left for the author but to let Jonathan fall ill and die, clinging to the hand of Rachel...